江山易改，本性难移

It's amazing how much of what you learnt in your childhood you retain. The way you were raised, the way you were conditioned stays with you for a long time, until you take drastic measures to act otherwise. Some things just stay for a lifetime and other people and even you yourself cannot expect these things to be changed. It makes you who you are. Other things such as bad experiences and bad memories should be forgotten and left behind, yet they stick to you like a leech, sucking out every ounce of blood inside of you, causing you immense pain for the rest of your life, until of course you can step out of this status quo and allow yourself to be stronger and better than what this past has restricted you to be.